The Nurse Practitioner Association has a meeting set up with BMA sometime soon to do just that - reassure them that if a nurse was on this register (bangs head on the table because of continued frustration, waiting for register) then they would be educated to a specific standard. NPs have battled to get things like prescribing, ordering investigations because the powers that be think a nurse is a nurse, not that some are working at an advanced level and actually quite good at it! Cherry ----- Fay Wilson asked > Has the RCN contacted the BMA to see if they would also support? It may > help some doctors who are anxious about nurses taking on previously > medical activities because they cannot identify levels of expertise. > F